LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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OCTOBER 1ST. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE, AND BEAUMARIS, ANGLESEY. Reports had been received that faint SOS calls had been heard and a patch of oil had been seen, but nothing could be found. - Rewards : Rhyl, £16 14s. ; Beaumaris, £16...
Lifeboat Services August September and October 1983
Aberdovery, Gwynedd Atlantic21: August 3,10,15,18,19 (twice), 28 and September 20 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic21: August 11, 14, 15, 16, 26, 27, September 1 (twice), 4,7,11,19 and 28 Aberystwyth, Dyfed D class inflatable: August 3, 6, 7, 13,19...
Category: Services
Make every moment count
If you like having serious fun on the water, the RNLI has a magazine, safety pack and DVD especially for you
Sailing, powerboating, windsurfing, angling, diving, kitesurfing, canoeing, riding your personal watercraft ......
Category: Articles
The Naval Hammock—Its Buoyancy and Use In Saving Life at Sea—In Cases of Collision, Etc
IT is well known that the boats of a man- of-war are, as a general rule, insufficient in number and capacity to save her crew except in the smoothest water; also, that the largest and safest are stowed on the booms, from whence time is...
Category: Articles
Feature Zetland Lifeboat - 200 Years
The Zetland is the oldest surviving lifeboat in the world. She first saw action in 1802 and continued to save lives at Redcar until 1880. Local historian Dave Phillipson, a crew member from 1961-1986, looks at the history of a remarkable...
Category: Articles
The Marquis of Normanby Cbe Lord Lieutenant of North Yorkshire and a Member of the Committee of Management Presented Coxswain William Sheader Scarborough
The Marquis of Normanby, CBE, Lord Lieutenant of North Yorkshire and a member of the Committee of Management, presented Coxswain William Sheader, Scarborough, with the BEM awarded to him in the New Year Honours List at Mulgrave Castle,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Power-Driven Life-Boats
IT may be that the great war that is now raging will be known to posterity as the " Petrol War," from the fact that petrol engines have been employed for warlike purposes to an extent that was never even dreamed of by those who...
Category: Articles
The Fundraisers
Gala brings history alive Two stars of the popular television series Heartbeat, helped draw the crowds at Whitby's lifeboat gala, over the weekend of the 29 and 30 July, when they performed a champagne launch on the town's restored...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Launches on Service
Lifeboat launches on service during the months June, July and August, 1974 Aith, Shetland August 12 and 16.
Amble, Northumberland July 16, 29 and August 30.
Angle, Dyfed June 2, 23, July 2, 13, August 4, 6...
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